Paris — HANDS down, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is the weirdest artist France produced in the first half of the 19th century. His highly refined painting style, built on exquisite draftsmanship and ...

Did you shower today, or did you make do with a quick spritz of Axe body spray? Across history, hygiene and cleanliness in art have mirrored shifting values about purity, beauty, and human nature.

PARIS — Who exactly was Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -- a reactionary or a modernist visionary? His Romantic contemporaries scorned his painting as too cold, too academic and too traditional. And yet ...

Like that other virtuoso of the rich and famous and their clothes, John Singer Sargent, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres hated painting portraits. It’s difficult, of course, to imagine two painters more ...

A painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres has been found in the French province of Jura completely by chance, Le Monde reports (see Long Lost Masterpiece Discovered in French Attic Comes to Auction) ...

Aimee Ng, the museum’s new chief curator, broke out of the academic mold with a video series called “Cocktails With a Curator ...